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Vices Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Whilst weakness and timidity keep us to our duty, virtue has often all the honor.
- When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
- Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.
- We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
- Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.
- Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.
- Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
- The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
- We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
- What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.
- When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
- Our virtues are often, in reality, no better than vices disguised.
- The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
- There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
- Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how…
- The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
More Vices Quotes
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. — Mary Astell
- We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot. — Saint Augustine
- It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. — Walter Bagehot
- Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice. — Abu Bakr
- Where the state begins, individual liberty ceases, and vice versa. — Mikhail Bakunin
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac
- Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once. — Tallulah Bankhead
- Fast cars are my only vice. — Michael Bay
- Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
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